++President Obama hasn't resigned today as Larry Klayman demanded. A right-wing website said that President Obama has other plans--declaring martial law and putting Americans in FEMA camps. He will use foreign troops to do it.
++Politico today has an article on 50 people who have already filed papers with the FEC to run for President in 2016. Quite a crew. A fun read.
++A birther preacher claims the woman shot down after crashing the White House gates this past week was the mother of Obama's "love child".
++Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media says that Pope Francis long papal letter on "reckless capitalism" shows the Marxist problem inside the Church.
++David Gregory interviews Cardinal Dolan tomorrow who says that the Catholic Church has been "out marketed" on same sex marriage and the Church isn't really anti-gay.
++Washington Monthly today has an analysis why the Post's warnings about a Republican wave election should be taken with a grain of salt. Democrats defended over 250 seats in 2010, many of them in Republican-leaning districts.
++Also in Washington Monthly, James Wimberley uses the various numbers on Obamacare and Medicaid expansion to write "Thanks to Obamacare,One million people now have health insurance".
++Brian Beutler in Salon writes about "What To Expect with Obamacare's November 30 Re-launch."
++Kathleen Sebelius at Huffington Post writes how to holiday shop on Healthcare.gov. Use the off-hours.
++Paul Krugman keeps on going. At first, he wasn't going to write about Obamacare but now he comes in with a blog on its Cost Savings.
++Tim Egan in today's New York Times writes" Rooting for Failure", an analysis on the GOP actually rooting for America to fail throughout the Obama Presidency. He asks the readers to try and remember when a major political party openly wished initiatives to assist Americans fail. From the auto bailout, the stimulus,the Affordable Care Act, the list goes on.
++Meanwhile, 76,000 New Yorkers have signed up for health insurance on that state's exchange.
++The Post worries today that maybe not enough young people will sign up for health insurance to make premium costs affordable.
++Buzzfeed has a story about a website that tracks those killed or injured during Black Thursday. Protesters here in Alexandria, Virginia were arrested at Walmart's and elsewhere in the state other shoppers shot each other.
Showing posts with label Tim Egan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Egan. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2013
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Growth for Growth's Sake is the Philosphy of Cancer
Edward Abbey, late eco-anarchist and prolific author, wrote one of my favorite books Desert Solitaire as well as the much beloved The Monkey Wrench Gang. His books make for great reading at this time.
Others also make the grade. If you want the real enviromental and economic doom book, try Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. But I liked his first book The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest ( Vintage, 1991,$14.95). The Seattle correspondent for the New York Times (still) covers the whole gamut of problems facing the Pacific Northwest--from the man-made demise of the salmon, the plight of the Indian reservation near Takoma, the no-growth movement in Seattle, the displaced New Jerseyan who raises the nearly extinct wolf, the bitter wars during the Depression over FDR's rural electrification program, and the on-going assault by the timber industry against old growth forests. At least he covers the still-existing natural glories of the Pacific Northwest while documenting the doom.
James Howard Kunstler mentioned in a previous entry on dystopians is the well-known author of The Geography of Nowhere, Homes from Nowhere and the Long Emergency. In his novel World Made by Hand, the national infrastructure has collapsed and cars are no more. Robert Earle and his fellow citizens in Union Grove, a little town in upstate New York,try to create a New America in a time of social collapse.
If you have glanced through the Library of America's volumes of Jack London, you'll notice the glarring omission of his political writings. Jack London died at the age of 40 at his Beauty Ranch situated on 129 of prime acres in Glen Ellen, California. he had resigned from the Socialist Party because it was too reformist and couldn't compare to his friends the Wobblies in terms of political action. He viewed his ranch as an environmental experiment, even marketing his brand of apple juice. His missing writings are in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution, edited by Jonah Raskin, (University of California Press, 2008). Raskin's long introductory essay "Jack London:The Orphan at the Abyss" is the best short synopsis of London's politics and its relationship to his life I have read.
Others also make the grade. If you want the real enviromental and economic doom book, try Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. But I liked his first book The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest ( Vintage, 1991,$14.95). The Seattle correspondent for the New York Times (still) covers the whole gamut of problems facing the Pacific Northwest--from the man-made demise of the salmon, the plight of the Indian reservation near Takoma, the no-growth movement in Seattle, the displaced New Jerseyan who raises the nearly extinct wolf, the bitter wars during the Depression over FDR's rural electrification program, and the on-going assault by the timber industry against old growth forests. At least he covers the still-existing natural glories of the Pacific Northwest while documenting the doom.
James Howard Kunstler mentioned in a previous entry on dystopians is the well-known author of The Geography of Nowhere, Homes from Nowhere and the Long Emergency. In his novel World Made by Hand, the national infrastructure has collapsed and cars are no more. Robert Earle and his fellow citizens in Union Grove, a little town in upstate New York,try to create a New America in a time of social collapse.
If you have glanced through the Library of America's volumes of Jack London, you'll notice the glarring omission of his political writings. Jack London died at the age of 40 at his Beauty Ranch situated on 129 of prime acres in Glen Ellen, California. he had resigned from the Socialist Party because it was too reformist and couldn't compare to his friends the Wobblies in terms of political action. He viewed his ranch as an environmental experiment, even marketing his brand of apple juice. His missing writings are in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution, edited by Jonah Raskin, (University of California Press, 2008). Raskin's long introductory essay "Jack London:The Orphan at the Abyss" is the best short synopsis of London's politics and its relationship to his life I have read.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)